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  <h1 class="refname">MongoRegex::__construct</h1>
  <p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo &gt;= 0.8.1)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoRegex::__construct</span> &mdash; <span class="dc-title">Creates a new regular expression</span></p>

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   <p class="para">This extension that defines this method
is deprecated. Instead, the <a href="" class="link">MongoDB</a> extension should be used.
Alternatives to this method include:</p>
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    <li class="member"><span class="methodname"><strong>MongoDB\BSON\Regex::__construct()</strong></span></li>
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 <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-mongoregex.construct-description">
  <h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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   <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoRegex::__construct</strong></span>(<span class="methodparam"><span class="type">string</span> <code class="parameter">$regex</code></span>)</div>

  <p class="para rdfs-comment">
   Creates a new regular expression.
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  <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
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      <code class="parameter">regex</code>
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      <p class="para">
       Regular expression string of the form <code class="literal">/expr/flags</code>.
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  <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>
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   Returns a new regular expression.
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    <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>MongoRegex::__construct()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
    <div class="example-contents"><p>This example uses a regular expression to query for all documents
    with a username field starting (<code class="literal">^</code>) with an
    <code class="literal">l</code> and a vowel (<code class="literal">[aeiouy]</code>),
    case-insensitive (<code class="literal">/i</code>).</p></div>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php<br />$luke_search&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;new&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">MongoRegex</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"/^l[aeiouy]/i"</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$cursor&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$collection</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">find</span><span style="color: #007700">(array(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"username"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">=&gt;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$luke_search</span><span style="color: #007700">));<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>
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  <h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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    <li class="member"><span class="methodname"><a href="mongoregex.tostring.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">MongoRegex::__toString()</a> - A string representation of this regular expression</span></li>
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